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Archive for October, 2008

Behave, or you won’t get that bike lane!

When good opinion pieces go bad: Graham Cornes starts out well making his case for better bike lanes in Adelaide, but then he heads off into illogical and dangerous territory…

Overwhelmingly positive

While the Around the Bay in a Day ride is not to my taste, I reckon it’s a great event that clearly demonstrates that cycling is an overwhelmingly positive activity.

Juvenile tools

I really had to tone down my language on this posting. It’s considerably shorter now that I’ve calmed down a bit and taken out all of the F-words…

Ride to Work Day 2008

A quick whip-around of news reports and blog posts on the subject of Ride to Work Day.

Speedlinking 14 October 2008

“What’s most enjoyable is sailing past queues of traffic in the rush hour!” — Bernard Sudlow

Bike parking is beautiful

The competition to design new bike racks for New York City has shown that secure bike racks can also be beautiful and interesting objects in the streetscape.